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Ethics and Morality Organizations and Journals Responsible Conduct Other Resources Organizations and Journals • Association for Practical and Professional Ethics "The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics is committed to encouraging high quality interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the theoretical and practical impacts of their subjects." http://www.indiana.edu/~appe/ • Online Ethics Center (Case Western Reserve University) The mission of the Ethics Center is to provide engineers, scientists, science and engineering students with resources useful for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work life. http://www.onlineethics.org/index.html • Ethics Updates (University of San Diego) "Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics." (This is one of the most comprehensive online ethics sites.) http://ethics.sandiego.edu/ • Science and Engineering Ethics http://www.opragen.co.uk • American Journal of Bioethics Online (University of Pennsylvania) This Web site is dedicated to "Bioethics - the moral implications of science, medicine, and research" (For the subject of bioethics, this is the leading site on the Web.) http://www.bioethics.net • Center for Academic Integrity (Duke University) "The Center for Academic Integrity is affiliated with the Kenan Institute for Ethics Program at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina...The Center for Academic Integrity provides a forum to identify and affirm the values of academic integrity and promote their achievement in practice." http://www.academicintegrity.org • Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research (Poynter Center and Indiana University) Materials developed for teaching moral reasoning by Muriel Bebeau, Ph.D., Center for the Study of Ethical Development, University of Minnesota with KD Pimple(Poynter Center), KMT Muskavitch (Indiana University), DH Smith (Poynter Center and Indiana University), and SL Borden (Poynter Center). http://poynter.indiana.edu/mr/mr-main.shtml • The Role and Activities of Scientific Societies in Promoting Research Integrity Conference convened by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Office of Research Integrity (April 10-11, 2000) http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/projects/integrity/integrity.htm • Centre for Applied Ethics (University of British Columbia) Links to a variety of Web-based resources on applied ethics and codes of conduct. http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/links/index.htm The following are a sampling of professional societies that have published exemplary guidelines on the responsible conduct of research. • American Academy of Microbiology See the pdf file containing the summary proceedings of a colloquium on "Dynamic Issues in Scientific Integrity: Collaborative Research" (sponsored by the American Society of Microbiology and the National Science Foundation) http://www.asm.org/Academy/index.asp?bid=25776 • American Society of Epidemiology http://acepidemiology.org/data.html • American Statistical Association http://www.amstat.org • Society for Neuroscience http://www.sfn.org/guidelines Responsible Conduct • On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research Committee on the Conduct of Science, National Academy of Sciences (1995): On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research (2nd ed.) National Academy Press, Washington DC. Designed for undergraduate and graduate students beginning to do science, this short book describes basic features of life in contemporary research and ethical issues researchers will likely encounter in their work. http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/obas • The Responsible Conduct of Research in the Health Sciences http://stills.nap.edu/books/0309062373/html/ • Responsible Science, Volume I: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process http://stills.nap.edu/books/0309047315/html/ • Responsible Science, Volume II: Background Papers and Resource Documents http://search.nap.edu/books/0309047889/html/ Other Resources • Codes of Science Ethics Online The Illinois Institute of Technology has an ongoing project to collect online codes of ethics in a variety of disiplines. http://ethics.iit.edu/codes/coe.html • AAAS Professional Ethics Report Published by AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/per/per.htm • On-Line Science Ethics Resources http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/ethics/ • Ethics-related Web Sites Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics (Dartmouth College) http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ethics/links.html • Good Laboratory Practices Online http://tigger.uic.edu/~magyar/Lab_Help/lghome.html update: 12/22/06 |
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